Publisher's Synopsis
An excerpt of a review from "The Homiletic Review," Volume 79:
MRS. RINEHART'S title, "Dangerous Days," has double meaning. The story is laid in war days-early 1915-comes down to the late days of 1918. The danger is not merely to those whom war affects in person and purse. It menaces the family of a rich manufacturer, whose shallow and selfish wife estranges a long-suffering and really noble husband, puts in grave jeopardy of soul their son, just of age, subject to the temptations of the irresponsible rich, and finally carries her out of bounds in an elopement with an idler in her own society. The story is not a pleasing one, it presents too real a picture of some of the wasteful and enervating idling and play of those who have no work to do and refuse responsibilities. The other side, too, is there-thoughtful patriotism, unselfish and loyal service, recovery of youth to sober truth and manliness, and devotion of men and women to country and mankind. There is a lot of earnest writing, a picture of the selfish and the light as well as of the serious thinking of people in troubles that now are past. And there is also the presentation of family troubles that do not need the background of war to develop them.
